Linux Air Combat Stable Release 6.15

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New version 6.15 is almost identical with the prior version, but the startup logic is improved a little bit when a user joins an online mission with a lot of other players. If some other player is already using the same Network ID that the newcomer has configured for himself (in his "LacConfig.txt") file, then this version will try to find a new Network ID for him (like prior versions) but now that new ID will always be affiliated with the same team ("Red" or "Blue") as the user had previously been using. If there are no free values for that team, this version terminates with explanatory text, advising the user to try another mission or to edit the "MyNetworkID" field within his "LacConfig.txt" configuration file to switch to the other team.

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Other small improvements since V6.10: After losing engines or running out of fuel, all aircraft now glide a little better and a little farther.

Explosions are now easier to hear whenever bombs fall on airfields.

Players can now ask the Server to record their activities as "gun camera missions". If these turn out to be of excellent quality and of good use to the LAC community, the server may use them as regular, persistent "Server Missions" that will be seen by other players, who can thereafter fly in the recorded environment and interact with the recorded aircraft.

A new log file, named "GunCamHistory.LAC", records the details of every incident that the player has asked the Server to record.

I enhanced the logic that replaces online aircraft that get shot down. Previous versions were replacing those aircraft (with bots) so quickly that it was confusing the player as the new aircraft appeared almost immediately and in the same location. Now there is a longer delay, and replacement aircraft tend to spawn much farther away.

I fixed several obscure bugs relating to refueling the German Me163 rocket plane.